Rangers outworked the Pens on every shift after 5 minutes into the game. Every shift. Mataa did not look ready for their two man fore-check... none of them did.

Olympic year Malkin. He will wake up as we get closer to the Olympics and then be OK.

I guess gearing up for the Boston Game showed them where the switch was and they just didn't turn it on last night. The Pens were taking 2-3 seconds to pass and shoot when they had to be done in 1 or it was blocked by a Ranger in their grill.

pcm wrote:The Pens were playing well. But they don't have a guy to stand in front of the net and give Lunqdvist trouble, so their good neutral zone play doesn't translate into anything. Rangers come back and take the game over. Same script the Pens have followed every year in the playoffs since 09.

Yep. The ole' perenniel net presence absence that never seems to go away.